Daniel Moore
1.) What is your name and where in the WWW (Whole Wide World) do you live?
Daniel: My name is Daniel Moore and I live in Lowestoft, United Kingdom.
2.) What do you do for a living, what pays the bills? And what is the thing you do when you are not doing the thing that pays the bills?
Daniel: I have a full BA Honors Degree in Graphic Design, but struggled to get a job, so now I deliver furniture. When I am not doing that I chill out on the Mac! Do a little web surfing, have a bit of techno on in the background (not all techno is boom boom boom, Chris Liebings weekly podcasts are great background listening), edit my website and photographs etc.
3.) How much of what you do, personally or professionally, gets done at the work space featured?
Daniel: Only the evening hobbies…
4.) Typically, what time of the day do you normally find yourself at this desk, and for how long? Night owl, early bird?
Daniel: While i’m eating my breakfast cereal and then back and forth during the evening, sometimes until quite late P.M. listening to music.
5.) How much of what gets done at your desk is for work, how much is it to scratch your own creative itch?
Daniel: None of it is work, as the Mac has become more of a leisure item. I do use iWeb to maintain my own website (www.dcmoore.co.uk), but I also design album art for my own compilations etc.
6.) What are the essentials that can be found on your desk more times than not? How about those items just out of reach or out of sight? If it’s not on top of your desk what are the things you most often grab out of a top draw or cabinet?
Daniel: My mobile phone (sadly, not an iPhone YET!). I don’t have anything around the computer. I still live at home, so space is tight. I like to keep things clean and uncluttered, like the Mac setup! There is a picture frame directly above the iMac, and every other month I change the picture to suit my mood!
7.) What beverage/food/snack can one usually find at your desk, and why?
Daniel: The occasional bowl of chocolate M&M’s…Why? Because they are really nice, but they add a little splash of colour to the environment! But no liquids or messy foods!
8.) Do you have any reasoning or anecdotes that lend some insight into why your desk is setup the way it is, or the thinking behind certain item(s)? How about the things around your desks? Decoration, wall art, figurines, statues, etc? Any particular reason behind those?
Daniel: Not really. The 3 external hard-drives are purely due to paranoia and efficiency! I keep my iMac’s internal HD as empty as possible to keep it lean and fast. Two of the external HD’s are dedicated to backups, whilst the others hold my iPhoto/Aperture library and my iTunes library (the latter sitting at nearly 200 GBs!). The iPod Shuffle I use when I go running, the iPod Touch is for my cycle to and from work: and on my lunch breaks I can watch TV shows and Movies so I don’t get bored!
9.) How much of what you do, or aspire to do, influences your desk setup, tangibly and intangibly.
Daniel: I can’t really give you a clear-cut answer to that, but my setup is influenced by Apple’s designs. I like to keep things neat and tidy so everything has it’s own place, and works, and is exactly where it’s meant to be. I can’t stand clutter!
10.) Are you a Mac or are you a PC? What machine(s) are setup and used at your desk? If you are a little bit of both tell us why. How about any other tech gear that can be found at your desk or in your home?
Daniel: I’m a Mac all the way. I was using a PC at home but used a Mac at college when I started my BTEC in Design. The PC was dreadful in comparison to the Indigo iMacs running OS 9, so when my student loan came through I bough a G4 iBook, which has only just passed away. I find PC’s so laborious. You can get some cracking deals, and you get ALOT more for your money, but I just love my Mac. I love the fact I can switch it on and be online in under a minute. No viruses, a very stable OS that requires minimal updating. It just works, and thats important to me. I don’t want to spend lots of time fixing things. I’m not saying it doesn’t have the occasional hiccup because it does, but it’s 98% trouble free (touchwood!).
11.) What’s the one piece of gear you could not live without?
Daniel: Thats a tough one, but at this moment, it’d have to be my iPod Touch.
12.) What piece of gear cannot be found on your desk, but you wish it could be?
Daniel: A 3Gs 32Gb iPhone!
13.) Software; what do you use more often than not. What helps you get the job done? And what do you not use, but hope one day to incorporate in your workflow?
Daniel: I use Safari and Mail a lot, but iTunes and iPhoto/Aperture 2 get used more than anything. I own Adobe CS1 which I use occasionally, but not as much anymore. Now that I have Aperture and iPhoto, I can post-process images in that as opposed to Adobe CS. I do use the Adobe Creative Suite for the occasional piece of custom album art though, and some occasional Photoshopping. I also use iWeb to design/amend/maintain my website.
In the future i’d like to get to learn iMovie. I don’t have a video camera, but I hope to own one soon, and i’d like to be able to edit my video’s etc.
14.) If you could change one thing about your desk, or the room it is currently in, what would that be?
Daniel: I would love a dedicated workspace, bespoke, with a nice backlit glossy desktop and space above and below to house all the peripherals I currently have wired up! Something quite elegant to really highlight the overall look of the Mac.
15.) Workspace Breakdown;
Think of as many things as possible that comprise the setup of your office or workspace, anything from the paint color on the walls to the floor mat your chair rolls on, and list them out. Who makes your desk, how about the cabinet next to your desk, your lamp, the overhead light fixture? Anything and everything you can see in the pictures shown, give as much color and background on these items as time and memory permits.
Daniel:
- 2008 iMac 2.4Ghz, 4Gb Crucial RAM, 250Gb HD, running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Apple Wireless Keyboard & Magic Mouse
- iPod Touch 2nd Gen 16Gb
- iPod Shuffle (Product RED) 1Gb
- Sony Earphones
- Canon MP540 Scanner/Printer
- 3 x Western Digital MyBooks (1x 320GB, 1x 640GB, 1x 1TB)
- Freecom external 52x DVD RW Drive
- D-Link 8 Port USB Hub
- Canon EOS 400D with Kit lens and Sigma 50-500mm zoom lens (for my motorsports photography).
- Workspace is from Argos: cost about £50, but no longer stocked. Perfect fitment for my room, but I would like more elegant in the future.
- Brown faux leather tub chair, £75 from local furniture store. Well, it’s got to be comfortable for the amount of time I spend in it!
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